Letter: Thanks to our homeland heroes

There is a saying in the military when someone calls you a POG (pronounced Poog), it means "Person other than Grunt." A grunt can take anything.

The local volunteer fire companies, EMS, Sheriff's Department, State Police and National Guard, along with the countless local organizations too many to mention in this letter, went downstate into a war zone. I witnessed the destruction first hand.

In this writer's opinion, without question, you are all "grunts," and please take that word as the highest compliment a soldier can bestow on a fellow warrior. You know who you are.

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I would also like to thank the local trucking companies that, without any compensation in this economy and with the price of gas and tolls, donated their time, equipment, manpower, compassion and energy for bringing vital supplies to people who had nothing.